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One Who Knows Me : Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shields, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: Figuring Friendship
  • CHAPTER ONE: Contexts for Friendship in Mid-Tang Literary Culture
  • The Discourse of Friendship
  • Historical Patterns
  • Social and Cultural Contexts
  • CHAPTER TWO: Building Networks: Friendship, Patronage, and Celebrity
  • Seeking a Patron: Writing for the zhiji
  • Selling Meng Jiao: Friendship and Patronage
  • Becoming Bai Juyi: Friendship and Celebrity
  • CHAPTER THREE: Responding in Kind: Friendship and Poetic Exchange
  • Mid-Tang Perspectives on Poetic Exchange and Friendship
  • Collaboration and Competition: The Linked Verses of Han Yu and Meng Jiao
  • Contesting the Past: The Nostalgic Exchanges of Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen
  • CHAPTER FOUR: To Know and Be Known: The Epistemology of Friendship
  • Epistemological Dimensions of Letters to Friends
  • Understanding: Using the Knowledge of Friendship
  • Misunderstanding: Negotiating Criticism and Conflict
  • Coda: In the Absence of Knowledge
  • CHAPTER FIVE: For the Dead and the Living: Performing Friendship after Death
  • Funerary Inscriptions for Friends
  • Offering Texts and the Performance of Friendship
  • Writing the Life and Death of Han Yu
  • CONCLUSION
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series